[froderick]

This is one of the more measured cases for golang I have read.

When it comes to my default set of tools, I gravitate towards dynamic, expressive languages that provide greater leverage rather than ones with fast startup times, c-like speed, native binaries, etc.

That said, when you need those things, I agree with this guy--golang has been a far better experience for me than any other language of its ilk. I'm not claiming it has magic powers like rust or a sentient type system like haskell, but I spent hours learning go fundamentals, and days figuring out how to get real work done with it. I can't say that for many other languages with go's compile and runtime capabilities.